women reading and doing construction work
in a french manuscript containing Christine de Pizan's exceptional proto-feminist "Book of the City of Ladies" ("Le Livre de la Cité des Dames") from 1405, a literary work in which she envisions a society consisting only of admirable women in history
source: Paris, BnF, Français 1179, fol. 3 recto.
565 notes
·
View notes
An illuminated page from The "Istora Thaumopolis" - a book penned two hundred years after the founding of Thaumopolis.
The Troll War (also known as the "War of Kisrovii Aggression", "The Kisrovii Invasion", and "The War of 1518") was an aggressive attack on Thaumopolis in early 1518, A12 by the Tsardom of Kisrovia. The Tsar had increasingly been aggravated by Thaumopolis' open borders policy at the time, which led to many Kisrovii peasants attempting to move there and diminishing the population briefly. The Tsar invented a casus belli that the City of Wizards had provoked an attack and marched north.
The defense of Thaumopolis was led by Lord-Councilor Curserain, who ingeniously fought the overwhelming numerical advantage that the Kisrovii had by relying almost entirely on Magic. Depicted above is "The Cursed Rain" (uncreatively named by its inventor) being cast by Curserain on the Kisrovii. It forced the enemy soldiers it hit to hallucinate, routing the army in a matter of hours. It is known as one of the most humiliating military defeats by a major power in recent history, and resolved by the Tsar of Kisrovia signing a defensive alliance that would ultimately result in their involvement in the Second Mechanist War several hundred years later.
31 notes
·
View notes
liberty bridge by hannesflo
Follow me on Instagram, DeviantArt, Twitter.
254 notes
·
View notes
The Jedi Exchange Worried Looks
STAR WARS EPISODE I: The Phantom Menace 01:25:20
14 notes
·
View notes
people headed towards a public execution
in "ehrenspiegel des hauses österreich", illuminated manuscript, augsburg, ca. 1555
source: Munich, BSB, Cgm 895, fol. 44v
158 notes
·
View notes